skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is what the Norwegian Data Protection Authority says:

In the cases of Smaato, OpenX and AdColony, Grindr “only” transmitted a signal conveying the data subject’s “opt-out” preference. We understand that advertising partners could choose to ignore that signal. In any case, Grindr would have to rely on the action of others, either the user, the operating system, Grindr’s partners, or a combination of the aforementioned, to halt its sharing of data where so required. In consequence, Grindr failed to control and take responsibility for their own data sharing, and the “opt-out” mechanism is not necessarily effective.

Furthermore, for a consent to be “freely given”, accepting to the particular processing operation should be as easy as declining, and the choice should be intuitive and fair.

[1]: https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/2021/intention-to-issue-... ("Advance notification of an administrative fine")
That guide says that you should do this because it can cause race conditions:

> This can cause unexpected and/or non-deterministic behavior depending on external timing factors.

But, as this whole thread is about, sometimes you don't mind race conditions. So it can ok to acknowledge but ignore this advice if you are aware of how this race conditions matters to your codebase.

Learn the rules, but know when to break them.
> Datadog is nagios 2.0 on the web, with really aggressive sales people

Oh man. At a previous job, I talked with some datadog people at a conference. Told them that while their product looked interesting, it wasn't really a good fit for our usecase. Few weeks later a sales person called me "Hi this is XXX from Datadog, remember we talked at conference YYY" (no, I don't remember you personally, and I'm absolutely certain you don't remember me either, but alas). I told him the same thing, that no, I'm sure it's a good product but doesn't fit our usecase. Ok, thx, bye. Well, next week he calls me again. No, I still haven't re-evaluated datadog, and I still think it's not a fit for our usecase. The following week he emails me, asking whether I'd like a more in-depth look at their product, or if there's somebody else at my employer who could be interested. Since it seems like a rehash of our previous discussions, I don't bother replying. Week after that, he emails me again, with some passive aggressive "still waiting for a reply here". Finally, some days later he emails me a long whine accusing me of breaking the trust between us by not responding to his emails. Seriously? FU.

Maybe Datadog needs some AI in their sales pipeline to figure out when they are pissing of potential customers to the point they vow to never have anything to do with the company.
> You're telling me out of millions of ballots, none of the pen or pencil markings could be unclear?

I didn't say any such thing. Of course there are disputed and spoiled ballots, and these are resolved quickly by the volunteers and local observers from the parties taking part in the election. Unless the number of disputed ballots exceeds the difference it's not really a problem. Recounts happen, especially where there's only a few hundred votes in it.

Spoiled ballots (where the voters are actively protesting by scrawling "I hate them all!", or some other message across the paper) are tallied separately, but are otherwise ignored when calculating the election outcome.
I think gay men anywhere are a vulnerable community. You can live in the most progressive society in the world, but many people still don't want their sexuality to be common knowledge

It's no different to straight people's sex lives, I'm sure many people wouldn't want it to be common knowledge what they're into, and who they've slept with
It was founded by Max Schrems, whom some of you might now for his lawsuits against Facebook a few years back, which ended the EU-US Safe Harbour and Privacy Shield data trade agreements.

It's mainly EU-centric which might be the reason why people here haven't heard of it before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems
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I heard on fox news that the money trickles down to poor. Its clearly their fault. They forgot to build in wealth catchers into their tents. \s

This is obviously sarcastic but sadly not far from what some people actually think. And i guess tent cities is where that thinking gets you to.
I remember their announcement, but actually seems like they don't offer ARM anymore, do they?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/21/scaleway_arm64_cloud_...
Maybe cause $BB&B is close to $BB, either the bots are mistaking it for $BB or the WSB "retards" are. Either way there's a bit of a "rocketship emoji" drive for $BB on WSB.
Previously, from the 8th: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25685646
From a quick search, 10% cheaper. Will try!
An anecdote for this: I got a heavy carbon steel pan for Christmas that I wished for. I didn’t expect it to be in the big box I got because it seemed to be too lightweight.
Seems like an excellent example that preventing a single point of failure means nothing if your system doesn't have the extra capacity to handle a single failure.
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It’s even worse than this. The government feigns that they can’t do anything. And that everything is the result of the market. Meanwhile, they easily pass bills to increase their own pay, or find magic money to pay for their military wars.

And then, after screwing up the 2008 crisis, they stopped building homes. And the homes that were foreclosed on, they allowed the rich corporations to buy them up for pennies on the dollar.

You call this a real estate market? It’s a god damned scam!

So what does that leave us with? Millennials that have a lot of student loans, low pay for decades, and now, they can’t even buy a home.

How wonderful it is that a dilapidated entry level home is now $700,000. Good luck paying for that, when you couldn’t even afford to pay for a $500,000 home.

Families are delayed. Marriages are delayed. Kids? Good luck even affording to pay for a family, with your $800,000+ mortgage.

Thanks America. You f*cked us. But sure, your rich buddies are even richer.
500KB/page at $0.02/page = $20.97/GB. HDD is $0.01-0.03/GB, SSD is $0.10-0.25/GB, BD/DVD are $0.02-0.10/GB, respectively, at retail prices and before counting redundancy. $20/GB was as far back for HDD as Oct 1999, which by the way fell further to around $7.50 next year in Oct 2000[1]. Yeah interesting but 10-100 fold density improvement would be nice...

1: https://mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte
As a Norwegian, I do like the idea that foreigners see me as capable of fighting a polar bear.

As for seals, I've eaten seal, I think, but it's hardly been a dietary mainstay... We used to have whale regularly when I was a kid, mostly because back then it was much cheaper than beef (and much tougher, and oily... it was not great meat - it's expensive now due to low supply and nostalgia).
You never see the modes of the harmonic minor in these things - always the major modes ( aside from the relative natural minor of course ), as a metal head it'd be useful to see one. Still very cool.
If a marketing service are upfront about "asking your preferences to serve as a reference to participating companies" and that is the primary purpose, they would be allowed under GDPR. Now the real question is would someone wants to do this? Knowing that around 17% of Americans would do this, it would fly in America. Now, would this fly in Europe?
> Does this mean that it is unacceptable to run a service which requires consent to share data? That seems overly restrictive - where does that leave services in which sharing data is the whole point of the service?

In this case the issue was that the consent was not informed. That is, Grindr weren't making it clear enough that the highly personal information they collected was then shared with hundreds of advertising partners.
> Does this mean that it is unacceptable to run a service which requires consent to share data? That seems overly restrictive - where does that leave services in which sharing data is the whole point of the service?

GDPR literally says that you're allowed to run a service that requires data and you don't even have to ask for consent for that type of data.

What you're not allowed is to collect data that's NOT critical for your service without consent.
Add to that the gym membership you will need to get fit enough to carry it around... and the chiropractor bills for when you realize you weren't fit enough after all.
On top of that, newer solar inverters MUST (at least in the EU) reduce power if frequency rises in order to automatically shed power in cases of extreme supply
They shorted more GME shares than the amount that currently exist. That's what "no shares left to purchase" is referring to.
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That doesn't mean you speak on behalf of all hindus. Just because you don't feel threatened and free to be a proud hindu

What if a person lives near racists, people who keep directing hate at hindus because of their (unjustified) hate against muslims? They may feel unsafe if people knew they were hindu no matter the area of the world

It's good that you don't feel threatened, but unfortunately not everyone is so lucky. And we should respect people who want to keep any aspect of their lives private.
The solution to this (also one which is used in the UK) is to put these other votes on different pieces of paper. That way you can count the presidential election first and leave the local initiatives to a bit later, or however you'd prefer to prioritize the results.
Why didn't he mention the cost? How does digital ocean compare to Hetzner's 1$/100GB/month snapshot offering?
Being gay means that simply holding hands with one's partner puts one at direct risk of being attacked. This is certainly still true in places like the UK. Are you saying you're at as much of a risk of being attacked like that in the UK for being Hindu? If so, it sounds like the UK has some major safety issues.
I imagine that if an apocalypse occurs during our era, the internet era, our first main technological endeavor would be to build an internet out of scraps of hardware we would find sprinkled almost homogeneously all over earth (phones, old C64's etc) so that we could once again start organizing ourselves and reach out to our fellow human beings and in this reoccurring daydream of mine I always end up thinking long and hard about the choices I've made in my career that would essentially render me as useless as my mom when it comes to rebuilding the internet, since the only programming language I know really well is C#. Because we would have limited resources a post-apocalyptic internet would almost certainly not be built on something like dotnet.

My plan is to read the news very carefully and quickly throw myself at a C tutorial as soon as I feel an apocalypse coming on.
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You're right to emancipate from the grab that SemWeb has had on the field for so long and turn to Prolog/Datalog and practical approaches IMO. Open world semantics and sophisticated theories may have been a vision for the semantic web of heterogenous data, but in reality RDF and co are only used in certain closed-world niches IME.

Pascal Hitzler is one of the more prolific authors (especially with the EU-funded identification of description logic fragments of OWL2 which are some of the better results in the field IMO), but beginning this whole discussion with W3C's RDF is wrong IMO when description logic as more or less variable-free fragments of first-order logic with desirable complexities was a thing in 1991 or earlier already.

Nit: careful with datomic. It's clearly not Datalog, but an ad-hoc syntax whereas Datalog is a proper syntactic subset of Prolog. And while I don't like SPARQL, it still gives quite good compat for querying large graph databases.
Did that go through? Releasing new overpriced shares while the price is being obviously raising unrelated to the company performance sounds super dodgy.
1. Startups are a crapshoot, success is very unlikely. Treat it like a bad beat in poker or not buying $gme options at $10/share

2. Did you exercise your options?

3. How far/likely is the startup to exit? You're likely better off financially working those years for an established publicly traded company
I wonder if there is a systemic risk behind this.

Kind of like, if one domino falls, then the rest will tumble.
> Every piece of information on this list is either plainly visible (for cars)

Nope, engine capacity, fuel type and year of manufacture are generally not visible on a car; the VIN is also not always publicly visible (in Europe, I don't know how the regulations are in Brazil).

What makes this database dangerous is its value for criminals in aggregated form... it's enough data to forge a car title, and assuming that there is another database that links VINs to individual people (either from the government or from a hacked bank), it now is possible to identify targets for a break-in attack.
OP has completely mistitled this link. It should be something like, 'Collection of videos to make white people fearful of blacks'.

If you stumbled across a channel that video after video depicts Jews stealing and hoarding money you'd call it antisemitic, and it would be very strange for that collection to be linked to on the front page of HN.
I'm surprised about:

>Consent must also be freely given. The DPA highlighted that users should have a real choice not to consent without any negative consequences. Grindr made use of the app conditional on consenting to data sharing or to paying a subscription fee.

I thought that this was allowed. Kind of puts companies depending on advertising in really bad position. One would expect that having choice of paying or getting tracked would be, at least for some people, better than just having to pay to get to the content.
The grid frequency is a measure of energy balance in the grid. So anyone can measure anywhere in the frequency domain whether there is a surplus or deficit of generation. This is due to the fact that the grid itself can't store any energy, it has to be balanced all the time.

Imagine the massive spinning generators as a big mass that slow down just a little bit when you switch on a light and then that generator has to add more steam (or open hydro valve or whatever).

So anyone with an accurate enough measuring device can exactly monitor the state of the grid. We use this device [0] for example.

There are generally frequency containment reserves (FCR) that consist of different ways of generation and have their different reaction times, power and energy capacities.

Hydro for example can react in about 15 seconds, battery inverters in milliseconds. Gas turbines in minutes, coal fired plants in hours.

You can also shed energy by switching off loads (Demand side response).

The system operator is responsible for grid balancing in the short term, they have direct facilities under their control and they have contracts with generators and consumers. And there are markets to bid your generation and flexibility.

The markets in the Nordics for example are:

- FCR-N (Frequency containment Reserve - Normal operations)

- between 49.90 - 49.99 and 50.01 - 50.10 (reaction time up to 20s)

- FCR-D (Disturbance) - between 49.7-49.90 and 50.10 - 50.30 (reaction time up to 2 seconds IIRC)

- FFR (Fast Frequency response) - below 49.7 - reaction time 0.6s IIRC

Once a day you bid your capacity for the next 24h (for each hour) and then you measure the grid frequency yourself and when you detect a deviation you activate your response. You get paid for availability and activation separately. There is a ton of qualification and logging you need to do to be able to participate but the activation message is the grid frequency itself, no further communication needed.

Outside frequency regulation there is energy markets where generation and consumption is agreed 24h ahead.

[0] https://www.gobmaier.de/
You should stay away from those, the damned thing is already heavy enough as it is...
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I wish I could agree.

Here is why I am not sure.

The nuclear weapons program is seen (in all good faith) by all those running it as vital to national security and national survival.

Anyone who expresses the slightest skepticism or concern about any aspect of it is seen as undermining this vital national goal. It should be noted that the skeptics / concerned are on very difficult ground professionally, because there are so many layers of secrecy and the barriers to disclosure are so strong that asking questions is actually nasty and rude. The people who are being questioned cannot disclose their true position or hint at why an arguement or line of questioning is silly and so they have to sit there (decent and honourable as they may be) sharply aware that they look shifty and silly. This is bloody unfair and unpleasant, it's never going to build bridges or relationships. It is an "unprofessional" line to follow.

So, these people (the skeptics) are then excluded from the program and anything that connects to it. The exclusion happens professionally (that guy is not honest or straightforward - don't trust his judgement), commercially/employment/youarefired & socially (you are a heretic, abhorrent, communist, idiot, greenie).

And that is ok - as far as it goes - I understand, I get it, there are many other roles and interests in life to pursue. But what it has created is the most profound bubble around the development, control and management of nuclear weapons within which everyone involves genuinely believes that they are safe, effective and necessary. There is no doubt. And without doubt there is complacency and ignorance. I hope to god that this doesn't lead to a major accident, but right now I am pretty sure that it will.
Norway is dependent on fish mostly because of the export value. A lot of fish is eaten in Norway, sure but the Norwegian economy is such that local production has very little to do with what people choose to eat.

The only place in Norway Polar bears live is Svalbard, far North of the mainland. Most Norwegians have never visited because it's far away (a 1h 40m flight North from Tromsø in Northern Norway - similar to how long it takes to fly South to Central Europe from Oslo) and way too cold and miserable.

Seal is something few people eat very often. A huge proportion of the population will never ever have tasted it. Like whale, it's uncommon these days.
Duplicity is crazy unreliable. Had so many problems with that from memory ballooning to corruption.

Only thing I’ve found which is even fit for purpose so far is rdiff-backup.

For personal stuff I’m just using iCloud and time machine to local disks.
> where does that leave services in which sharing data is the whole point of the service?

When you actively share data with others, consent to process the data for this implicit. So as I understand it, a dating app would not need your explicit consent to share a profile photo with others on the platform since that is the whole point of the app.

But if the service decides to provide your personal data to advertisers, explicit consent is required, since that is not essential for providing the service. The service could just as well show anonymous ads, or target ads without tracking the user.
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1. A limited set of drugs should be legal. Stuff like heroin or synthetic "salts", etc. should be legally banned. I see no good reason for legal heroin for example.

2. Legal drugs should be equal in rights, including alcohol and nicotine. Same laws, same taxes etc.

3. ALL advertisements for legal drugs should be permanently banned everywhere. Including advertising with a package/bottle itself on a market shelves. So no drug containing products can be displayed visibly on the shelves, anywhere, even in 21+ shops.

4 (optional). There should be a network of government sponsored clinics who will provide a certain subset of legal drugs for free, with mandatory medical screening. Not the drug itself for later use, but a single dose administered on-site. I'm not exactly sure about all negative possibilities here, so it's an optional idea.

Points 1,2,3 should be mandatory and implemented as soon as possible.
I also find this confusing. Article 7 says

> When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract. https://gdpr.eu/article-7-how-to-get-consent-to-collect-pers...

So it does sound to me like you can't tie data sharing to provision of service because then consent is not freely given.

Also:

> Consent is presumed not to be freely given if it does not allow separate consent to be given to different personal data processing operations despite it being appropriate in the individual case, or if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance. https://gdpr.eu/Recital-43-Freely-given-consent

I think this means that even if Grindr obtains consent the way they do, it's still not freely given consent so even having obtained it they still don't have permission to use the data the way they want, since only freely given consent counts as consent. But I'm not sure, maybe it's more complicated.
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Definitely one of the essential steps to creating our snowpiercer future.
I cannot compare pay across locations for a single company.
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Most likely as a Hindu you never had to fear the response you would receive by telling your parents or other family members that you are a Hindu.

As long as people have to fear getting kicked out, disowned, subject to slurs, or otherwise being ostracized by their family, friends, or community for being gay, lesbian, bi, or trans, then yes, the LGBT community remains vulnerable. And once you've been vulnerable like that, it never goes away. There will ALWAYS be a part of you that remembers it and it will affect you for the rest of your life.

That alone is enough vulnerability. The fact that the LGBT community still deals with a lot of verbal and physical assaults as well just makes things worse. And yes, this is still an issue in the UK, in Norway, the US, and other western countries.
They expect it to reach 500-1000, if they are patient and right they'll probably find gold.
In my defence the new bit was "in IT" not technology generally. IT is the operation of information infrastructures by major enterprises. And the timeline was 30 years. Laptops were very, very, very uncommon 30 years ago!

Cloud computing isn't just shared servers - it's a shared application infrastructure. It's extremely different from the old mainframe model.

I have to say I do think that operations could be better without new silver bullets, but the scale and pressures on IT and business operations in general are dragging them to a precipice. Things are now so complex and demanding that at some point we may well see major organisations fray and disintegrate because they just can't run themselves anymore. Something close happened with the cyber attacks on Maersk and the NHS a few years ago - but from what I've seen it's quite possible that someone big will get themselves into such a tangle that they suffer a complete operational breakdown without an attack.